“Something really big is coming” and “It’s 3.9 meters long” were the only clues that Dirk Oehlerking of Kingston Custom gave us about his latest project. We knew that he had a Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 on the bench after winning last year’s Malle Mile Custom Build Challenge, and we’re well familiar with his work. So that was all the data we needed to fuel our speculation.
Kingston Custom’s Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 has just broken cover, and it’s even wilder than we imagined. Best described as an art deco streamliner, it puts the German artisan’s talent on full display.
Dirk runs the Kingston workshop out of a former forge in Gelsenkirchen, Germany—the perfect setting for the sort of hands-on metalwork that he relishes.…